GROCERY

Key challenges impacting traditional grocers

Traditional supermarkets have been consistently losing share to discount, dollar, and extreme discount in lower-income segments. They have also been losing share to specialty and warehouse clubs in higher-income groups

Top 5 national chain consolidation is threatening even the strongest traditional grocer’s local market share

Single member households now stand at the highest levels ever recorded, which threatens basket size

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

Our proprietary research of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) registered grocers (excluding Dollar and C-stores) indicated a 6% increase in top 5 national chain market share in the past two years. The smallest 90 retailers in the top 100 only represented 27% of total 2015 sales, and the gap is widening.

The 5 rights

To maintain and improve EBITDA results under such competitive pricing pressure, you need to shift your focus. It's time to concentrate on the '5 rights', right product, right place, right time, right quantity, and right price.

With food and beverage suppliers facing their own profit pressures, where is the low hanging fruit for retailers? Reducing the cost of goods is probably not the best area of attack. A smarter place to start is by reducing the costs that are under retailers' control and the most obvious area for many of our clients is shrink.

Our Approach to Shrink Reduction

The earlier in the value chain you fix a problem, the cheaper it becomes